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The Preps were introduced to a different type of bug this week. The BeeBots. BeeBots are robotic bees that you can program to move in a direction of your choice. During Provocation time, some of the Bug Groups how to use these by moving it around a track. They discovered that the number of times the […]

    On Friday the 27th May Gold House will be holding A Day in May which supports Challenge, an organisation that provides assistance for children with cancer. The money we raise goes to providing music therapy sessions for children who are diagnosed with cancer. On the 27th May please bring a gold coin donation

Well done to all the Preps on completing their first ever Walkathon on Wednesday! The Preps walked (and ran) their little hearts out! After the Walkathon had finished, we enjoyed the delicious gelato together on the mini oval. The children wrote their own recount of the Walkathon. Many children wrote about the gelato and the number

The Preps did a practice walk around the school this afternoon and they are super excited now for their first Walkathon. A few important points: Wear suitable shoes Bring a drink bottle Return your blue sponsor form to home group teacher if you haven’t already done so! We will return them to you with your child’s

We love having parent helpers in the Prep Neighbourhood.  If you are interested in coming in and supporting our learning, pop your name onto the sign up sheet which is located in the Prep courtyard. If you have come in to help before you can still add your name to the sign up sheet. We

Last week, Tomo read the story ‘Gugi Gugi’ during a workshop that focused on deepening the Prep’s understanding of characters in stories and how to describe them. Here is a link to the story on ‘Story time Online’ http://www.storylineonline.net/guji-guji/ Today we did a letter study into ‘G’.  

MONDAY Workshops (Costume, writing and reading) Projects and provocations Guided Reading / Modelled writing / Letter study Piggy and Gerald – neighbourhood viewing of stories from the series and description of characters TUESDAY Projects and Provocations Specialist classes: Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys

Walkathon sponsor sheets must come to school by Wednesday at the latest. Home group teachers will be writing the number of laps that your child walked onto their sheet, which then goes home that day for payment to be organised. Remember, the first home group in the school to bring in all monetary contributions will be having a PIZZA

The Preps will have the opportunity to grow their own plant (from cuttings) to attract more butterflies to our courtyard. They will be making mini-hot houses for them to help them grow. If you have any empty plastic soft drink bottles, we would greatly appreciate them. A collection container will be on the shelf in between the

On Tuesday, the Preps listened to the story ‘We’re off to Thunder Mountain.’ What we found out while reading the book: It is a counting book! It has a growing pattern, with each new page the amount of creatures increases by 1. The characters in the story are all types of ‘spooky creatures’ It describes the characters.